Tag Archives: orchid

Orchid Bee Discovered

Entomologists have described a new species of the neotropical orchid bee genus Eufriesea from the Islas Marías of Nayarit State, México in the Pacific. Eufriesea insularis, female holotype. Image credit: Ayala et al., doi: 10.3897/jhr.92.87197. Eufriesea is a genus of over 60 bee species in the tribe Euglossini, commonly known …

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New Orchid Species

An international team of botanists has discovered three new endemic species of the orchid genus Lepanthes in the highlands of Ecuador. Lepanthes oro-lojaensis growing in its natural habitat. Image credit: Francisco Tobar Suarez. Lepanthes is a large genus of orchids with up to 1,000 species distributed in the Neotropics. The …

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Orchid or a Dandelion?

When It Comes to Retirement, Dr. Thomas Boyce is a pediatrician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. His best-selling book The Orchid and the Dandelion summarizes two types of individuals: dandelions (hardy and propagating) and orchids (requires extraordinary …

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